Word: packets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gladys left Liverpool Street carrying a bedroll, a kettle and saucepan, a suitcase of canned food, ninepence in cash and a thin packet of travelers' checks. Said she to her mother & father: "Never get me out or pay ransom for me. God is sufficient...
...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...Standish Weston of TIME'S Promotion Department since he was eleven years old. At that time, to settle an argument about the German Kaiser's responsibility for starting World War I, he wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That started him off on heraldry...
...ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...
...turn-of-the-century Geographic was a stodgy scientific journal, written with old-fashioned portentousness, and floundering in debt. Grosvenor stuck to the pattern for six years. One day in 1905, a packet of photographs from Tibet landed on his desk. Grosvenor was fascinated by the rugged Tibetan scenery and the Dalai Lama's palace. On an impulse, he spread the pictures across eleven pages. The issue created a sensation: almost by accident, Grosvenor had discovered how to make geography popular...